Smart Materials & Digital Processes for Wearable Technology

Technologie 5./6. Semester 

Strasse des 17. Juni 118
Raum 208
Info: Fr 10-13 Uhr
Start: 26.10.2018

Lehrende:

JunProf. Dr. Berit Greinke

SEMINAR:

This seminar provides an introduction to topics in experimental Wearable Technology and Electronic Textiles.

With the aim of contextualising your work within a broad creative field, sessions on the themes ‘materials’, ‘data’, ‘crafts’ and ‘digital processing’ will explore the central ideas of this multi-disciplinary field and its application in design and arts practice.

The process of orientation will be supported by hands-on interventions, field trips and guest lectures, to investigate a range of material-based and interdisciplinary approaches.

The seminar will be held in English.
Students will work independently on a sketchbook and a written assignment (in German or English).

Sessions:

• 26.10.18 – Smart Materials & Digital Processes: Introduction
• 02.11.18 – Electric Dress: Artistic interventions in Wearable Technology
• 09.11.18 – Conductive: Materials I
• 16.11.18 – Data: Materials II (Guest lecturer: Dr Julie Freeman)
• 23.11.18 – Performative: Materials III
• 30.11.18 – Wisdom in the Wool: Digital Crafts
• 07.12.18 – We are open: Open Source & Knowledge Sharing (Field trip)
• 14.12.18 – Fashionable Protest: Wearable Technology for Activism and Social Justice
• 18.01.19 – Digital Fabrication: Introduction to Non-Industrial Digital Textile and Garment Construction
• 25.01.19 – Soft Hardware: Wearable Technology and Electronic Engineering
• 01.02.19 – Borg Lab: Human-Computer-Interaction
• 08.02.19 – The Worst of Both Worlds: Sustainability in Wearable Technology
• 15.02.19 – Sampling: e-Textiles and Sound (Guest lecturer)

Seminar aims

• To enable you to situate your critical and reflective thinking about wearable technology and digital processes in a contemporary and historical context; 
• To provide you with a range of techniques and research topics relevant to investigate wearable technology within your practice;
• To develop your ability to take an international perspective with a critical awareness of current issues and developments in wearable technology.

Learning outcomes

Being able to:

• identify and research a specific historical or contemporary theme related to wearable technology;
• identify and research materials, tools and methods to design electronic textiles and textile wearable technology, applied to experimental fashion / textiles / product design;
• critically analyse concepts and practice of electronic textiles and wearable technology related to artistic practice, crafts and design.